On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 02:44 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > > But, if you want to do it the hard way, you probably have an > > Unfortunately I do want to do it the hard way. While the SME server > would make things really easy, the lesson I learnt in the past with > easy thing is that, once something break, I will really have no idea > what is going on. > > It's kind of like folks who grew up knowing only GUI, they usually are > helpless if the mouse doesn't work. > > > authentication issue. With the default security setting of 'user', the > > windows users must authenticate before they can even see a share - and > > things get weird if the name they used to log into windows is not the > > same as the linux/samba login name. You can still map drives if you > > explicitly specify \\server\share, 'connect as other user' and fill in > > the name and password, but browsing for shares often doesn't work. > > I think we have a winner! This could be it as the names they use to > log into their Windows machine are not their own. Most of them are > inherited PC, they simply continued using the previous login since no > password were set, usually. > > Where as the other location was a new setup with new PC setup. > > > you aren't too concerned about security, you can change this to > > 'security = share' and then you can browse before authenticating, and > > also have the option to authenticate as different users when connecting > > to different shares on the same machine which you can't do in user or > > server modes. > > I'll probably do this since this is what they are used to, and expect. Share Mode is depreciated now. All that does is revert back to user mode. > > I don't understand the log issue, though. Are you sure smbd is running? > > Nmbd would be enough to activate the netbios name - maybe you have a > > syntax error in smb.conf and smbd did not start. > > Definitely running. I have tail -f on both their logs and ls the log > folder every time. The startup message gets logged everytime I did a > service restart on trying a different setting. Which was why I was > curious why there was no log message whatsoever. > > The other machine would show new logs for connecting IP/machines (I > think as a result of me using the split log function) even if they got > rejected. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos